Southern Constellations/The Boy Who Could Fly · Pierce The Veil

228 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 7:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
7:56
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-45, 47-52 and 95-101, and 4 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
SOUTHERN CONSTELLATIONS/THE BOY WHO COULD FLY · BARS 39-40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 14, 21, 22, 30, 35 and 27 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 35-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

228 bars across 24 sections: 121 keep time, 33 are fills, 43 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-145.

PART B
CHORUS
PART P
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AC
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
19 groovesLBIACAH+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Southern Constellations/The Boy Who Could Fly?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Southern Constellations/The Boy Who Could Fly hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 7:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Southern Constellations/The Boy Who Could Fly?

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 14, 21, 22, 30, 35 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED
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